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IT strategy & roadmaps
Where the technology should go over the next one to three years, sequenced against budget, hiring and the commercial plan.
- Current-state assessment
- Costed option appraisal
- Board-ready roadmap
Registered in England & Wales · No. 16664432
Technology decisions,
Technology decisions,
made with evidence.
Pragmatica Tech is an independent information technology consultancy in Plymouth. We are hired to look carefully at systems, spending and delivery plans — and to write down what we actually found, what it will cost, and what we would do next.
Independent — no product resale
Fixed-scope, fixed-fee assessments
Written deliverables, always
What we do
Six consultancy lines, one habit: look before advising
Companies House records us under SIC 62020 — information technology consultancy activities. In practice that means six kinds of work, and every one of them begins with reading the estate as it is rather than as the last presentation described it.
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Architecture & integration review
How the systems fit together, where the data actually flows, and which joins are quietly holding the business together.
- System and data-flow mapping
- Integration and API review
- Technical debt register
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Cloud migration advisory
Whether to move, what to move first, and what it will genuinely cost to run once the migration project has finished.
- Workload placement analysis
- Run-cost modelling
- Migration sequencing plan
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Data, reporting & automation
Getting one version of the numbers, then removing the manual steps that stand between a question and its answer.
- Reporting and data-source audit
- Process automation candidates
- Tooling recommendation
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Delivery & vendor assurance
Independent review of a build, a supplier shortlist or a project that has stopped moving — with a written position, not a hunch.
- Requirements and scope review
- Tender and vendor evaluation
- Delivery health check
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Security & resilience readiness
A plain-English view of exposure, backup reality and recovery time — and the order in which to close the gaps.
- Control and access review
- Backup and recovery testing plan
- Cyber Essentials readiness
How we work
Evidence, options, recommendation — in that order
Most technology advice fails not because the idea was wrong but because it arrived without a costing, without a sequence, and without anyone owning the next step. Our method exists to remove those three failure modes.
STEP 01
Discovery
We talk to the people who use the systems daily and the people who pay for them. We ask for read access, licence invoices and the last two project post-mortems.
STEP 02
Assessment
Architecture, cost, risk and delivery capability are each measured against the outcome you have described — not against a generic maturity model.
STEP 03
Options
Normally three: do nothing, do the pragmatic thing, do the thorough thing. Each carries a cost range, a duration, a risk note and what it forecloses.
STEP 04
Recommendation
One clearly argued position, a sequenced roadmap, and a walkthrough with the people who have to deliver it. Implementation support is optional and separately scoped.
Four commitments that shape every engagement
- We are independent. We do not resell licences, take vendor commission, or hold partner quotas. If the best answer is the software you already own, that is what the report will say.
- Everything is written down. Verbal advice is forgettable and unauditable. You receive a document you can circulate, challenge and keep.
- We price the scope, not the hours. Assessments are fixed-fee against a written scope, so the cost of finding out is known before you commit.
- We say when we are the wrong firm. Some problems need a specialist, a lawyer or simply a hire. Telling you that early is cheaper for you than a discovery phase.
Typical deliverables
Per assessment
- Findings report
- Current state, evidence, risks — with sources cited
- Option appraisal
- Costed alternatives with trade-offs stated plainly
- Roadmap
- Sequenced actions, dependencies, owners, indicative budget
- Register
- Technical debt and risk items, ranked by consequence
- Walkthrough
- A working session with your team, not a slide handover
Ways to work with us
Three shapes of engagement
Chosen by how much certainty you need and how much of the work you intend to run yourselves. All three are scoped and priced in writing first.
FORMAT 01
Fixed-scope assessment
Four weeks, one written report, one question answered properly — “should we migrate”, “is this build recoverable”, “where is the money going”.
- Fixed fee agreed up front
- Defined interview and access list
- Report plus walkthrough session
FORMAT 02
Advisory retainer
A named consultant on call for a set number of days each month — for organisations with no CTO who still face CTO-shaped decisions.
- Agreed monthly day allocation
- Architecture and purchase review
- Quarterly written position paper
FORMAT 03
Project oversight
Independent assurance alongside an internal team or an external supplier, from procurement through to go-live.
- Scope and contract review
- Milestone and quality checkpoints
- Escalation notes you can act on
The pragmatic answer is rarely the most impressive one. It is the one you can afford, staff and finish — and it is the only kind worth putting in writing.
What we commit to
Service standards, stated as obligations
These are the terms we hold ourselves to on every engagement — contracted commitments, not a claim about past performance.
First reply
1 day
Every enquiry to support@pragmaticatech.org gets a considered answer within one working day.
Scoping call
45 min
A free, no-obligation conversation to decide whether there is a piece of work here at all.
Standard assessment
4 weeks
From kick-off to written report and walkthrough, with a fixed fee agreed beforehand.
Vendor commission
0 %
We take no fee, rebate or referral payment from any software or hardware supplier.
Who we help
Organisations at the point where informal IT stops scaling
Our work suits organisations between roughly ten and three hundred people: large enough that technology decisions carry real cost, small enough that no one is employed full-time to make them.
We work with clients across the United Kingdom. Being based in Plymouth, we are within straightforward reach of Devon, Cornwall and the wider South West for on-site discovery, and work remotely everywhere else.
Professional services firms
Practices whose systems grew case by case and now need one architecture, clean client data and a defensible security position.
Scale-ups without a CTO
Founder-led companies making architecture, hiring and build-versus-buy decisions that will be expensive to unwind later.
Charities & membership bodies
Organisations that must justify every pound of technology spend to trustees, funders or a members' council.
Manufacturers & operators
Businesses running older line-of-business software that still works, and needing an honest view of what replacing it involves.
Boards facing a decision deadline
Directors who need an independent second opinion on a proposal, a supplier or a budget before they sign it.
Registered details
A UK company, on the public record
Pragmatica Tech Ltd is a private company limited by shares, incorporated under the Companies Act 2006 and registered in England and Wales. Every detail below can be verified against the Companies House register.
We publish only what is already filed publicly. Personal particulars such as dates of birth, nationality and shareholding details are deliberately not reproduced here.
Companies House
England & Wales
- Legal name
- PRAGMATICA TECH LTD
- Company number
- 16664432
- Incorporated
- 21 August 2025
- Company type
- Private company limited by shares
- Registered office
- 129 Ladysmith Road, Plymouth, United Kingdom, PL4 7NW
- Director
- Andressa Caroline Oliveira de Azevedo Dantas
- SIC code
- 62020 — Information technology consultancy activities
- Contact
- support@pragmaticatech.org
Questions
Before you get in touch
A 45-minute call, free and without obligation. You describe the decision or the problem; we ask what we would need to see in order to answer it. If there is a piece of work, you receive a written scope with a fixed fee within three working days. If there is not — or if you need a different kind of firm — we will say so on the call.
Advice is the core of the practice: assessments, architecture reviews, roadmaps and assurance. We also provide hands-on implementation support — configuration, migration oversight, supplier management — but it is always scoped and priced separately from the assessment that recommended it, so the recommendation is never influenced by the size of the implementation that might follow.
No. We hold no reseller agreements, partner tiers or commission arrangements, and we accept no referral fees. Where a recommendation names a product, the report also states the alternatives considered and why they were set aside.
Assessments and reviews are fixed-fee against a written scope, so the cost of finding out is known before you commit. Retainers are priced on an agreed number of days per month. Implementation support is quoted per phase. Any change to scope is agreed in writing before the work is done — there are no surprise invoices.
Regularly, and it is often the healthiest arrangement. Your managed service provider runs the estate; we provide the independent view on strategy, architecture and spend. We are explicit with incumbents that we are not bidding for their contract.
Yes — we work with clients throughout the United Kingdom, remotely as standard. On-site discovery days are straightforward across Devon, Cornwall and the South West from our Plymouth base, and are arranged by agreement elsewhere.
Under a mutual non-disclosure agreement, signed before discovery begins if you would like one. We ask for the least access needed to answer the question — read-only wherever possible — and return or destroy working material at the end of the engagement on request. See our privacy notice for how personal data is handled under UK GDPR.
Next step
Tell us the decision you are trying to make
One email is enough to start. Describe the situation, what has already been tried and when you need an answer — we will reply within one working day with either a scoping call or an honest note that this is not our work.
Free 45-minute scoping call · No obligation · Written scope before any work